By Wentworth S.B. No. 1366 74R6700 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to delegation of duties of the tax assessor-collector and 1-3 county clerk in certain circumstances. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.37(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) The county clerk of the county in which an application 1-8 for a permit is made shall certify whether the location or address 1-9 given in the application is in a wet area and whether the sale of 1-10 alcoholic beverages for which the permit is sought is prohibited by 1-11 any valid order of the commissioners court. The county clerk may 1-12 delegate this duty in the same manner as provided by Section 1-13 61.313. 1-14 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 61, Alcoholic Beverage 1-15 Code, is amended by adding Sections 61.313 and 61.314 to read as 1-16 follows: 1-17 Sec. 61.313. DELEGATION OF DUTIES OF COUNTY CLERK. (a) A 1-18 county clerk may file a written instrument with the commissioners 1-19 court of the county delegating to another county official the 1-20 duties imposed on the county clerk under this chapter. 1-21 (b) An action taken by a county officer acting under the 1-22 delegated authority of the county clerk has the same effect as an 1-23 action taken by the county clerk. 1-24 (c) During the period in which the written instrument is in 2-1 effect, the county clerk may withdraw the authority delegated and 2-2 the county clerk may perform a duty imposed by this chapter. 2-3 (d) The county clerk may at any time revoke the written 2-4 instrument. 2-5 Sec. 61.314. DELEGATION OF DUTIES OF TAX ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR. 2-6 (a) A tax assessor-collector may file a written instrument with 2-7 the commissioners court of the county delegating to another county 2-8 official the duties imposed on the tax assessor-collector under 2-9 this chapter. 2-10 (b) An action taken by a county officer acting under the 2-11 delegated authority of the tax assessor-collector has the same 2-12 effect as an action taken by the tax assessor-collector. 2-13 (c) During the period in which the written instrument is in 2-14 effect, the tax assessor-collector may withdraw the authority 2-15 delegated and the tax assessor-collector may perform a duty imposed 2-16 by this chapter. 2-17 (d) The tax assessor-collector may at any time revoke the 2-18 written instrument. 2-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-25 passage, and it is so enacted.